Panty



H. G. HILL Sept. 18, 1951 PANTY Filed April 16, 1948 INVENTOR HELEN GRAY fi ILL.

W ){dj-Mm- ATTORN Ys Patented Sept. 18, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE This invention relates to a pantie and particularly to a maternity garment of said kind.

An object of the invention is to provide a practical and simple garment. of the above described kind.

a pantie the waist measurement of which may be selectively modified by the user.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the above described kind which is adapted to accommodate itself to body move The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements, arrangements of parts, and in the several steps and relation and order of each of said steps .to one or more of the others thereof, all as will be pointed out in the following description, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

The invention will best be understood if the following description is read in connection with the drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view illustrating the device on a user and partly fastened;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the panels comprising the embodiment of the invention shown herein;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the garment with the front panels overlapped and fastened together;

Figure 4 is a detail cross sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 3; and

Figure 5 is a detail view partly broken away showing one form of cooperative fastening means for selectively joining the portions of the garment which overlap.

As described herein the garment comprises a back panel In and the panels l2 and M which are joined to the back panel to complete the garment. The edge a of panel I2 is joined to the edge a of back panel Ill. Similarly the edge I) of panel I4 is joined to the edge I) of back panel Ill. And the edges 0 of both panels I2 and M are each joined to the edge 0 of back panel l0, thus forming a three-ply seam l6 as best shown in Figure 4.

The panels l2 and I4 may overlap one another substantially. In the embodiment of the inven tion shown in Figure 3 the edge d of panel 12 extends well beyond the vertical middle line of the front of the garment, terminating at its lower end adjacent to the leg I8, and similarly the edge e of panel l4 extends a substantial distance Another object of the invention is to provide 3 Claims (Cl. 2-224) under panel l2 and terminates at its lower end adjacent the leg 2|].

Projecting outwardly from the top of edges e and cl of panels l2 and [4 respectively are fastening members 22 and 24 which may be attached directly to the panels I2 and M or to the ends of a belt-like member 26, preferably elastic, extending around the upper margin of the garment, and retained in position, for example, by a casing 28 formed by turning down the upper margin of the garment.

Along the upper margin of the garment at points, spaced from the lateral edges e and d respectively, a plurality of fastening means 30 and 32 are provided which are adapted to cooperate with the fastening means 22 and 24 respectively. The fastening means 30 and 32 may take the form of tabs each joined at one end to the garment, as by the line of stitching s, Figure 5. The tabs may be provided with a plurality of eyes 30 and 32 respectively, the eyes of tab 32 each being adapted to receive fastening means 24, and the eyes of tab 30 each being adapted to receive the fastening means 22.

In use the panels I2 and I4 are overlapped to the extent desired to give maximum comfort and freedom of movement, and the user may selectively engage the fastening members 22 and 24 in the eyes 31.1 and 32 of tabs 30 and 32 respectively to secure the overlapped panels in position to give the desired waist measurement.

The device has the advantage of simplicity and of flexibility in use and is well adapted to give a maximum amount of freedom, and is thus especially adapted for use as a maternity garment.

It will thus be seen that there has been provided by this invention an article in which the various objects hereinabove set forth together with many thoroughly practical advantages are successfully achieved. As various possible embodiments might be made of the mechanical fea tures of the above invention and as the art herein described might be varied in various parts, all without departing from the scope of the invention, it is to be understood that all matter hereinbefore set forth or shown in the accompanying drawing is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim is:

1. A pantie comprising a rear panel, and two front panels each of said front panels having a substantially straight lateral margin adapted to be secured to one of the lateral margins of said rear panel, and having its other lateral margin cut with a reverse curve, said reversely curved margins being adapted to overlap and each having attachment means at its upper end adjacent its reversely curved lateral margin, and each having a plurality of attachment means positioned inwardly from the upper end of its lateral margin for selectively receiving the attachment means adjacent the reversely curved lateral margin of the other front panel, each of said panels having a portion of its bottom margin adjacent the lower end of said reversely curved margin substantially parallel with the upper margin of the panel and said rear panel having a portion in the middle of its lower margin substantially parallel with the upper margin of .said rear panel and of substantially the same length as the said portions of the lower margin of the front panels,

curved inner margin which is substantially parallel to said upper margin and another portion which is inclined upwardly from said first mentioned portion to the said outer lateral margin,

, said panels being assembled so that the portions the said portions of the lower margins of the front panels being overlapped, said rear panel having an intermediate portion of its lower margin substantially parallel to its upper margin, said intermediate portion being superimposed on and stitched to the overlapped lower margins of said front panels thereby providing a seam joining all three panels together and causing the a garment to define two leg portions spaced apart by the length of saidseam, and means for securing the overlapped upper margins of said front portions in any of avariety of different degrees of overlap.

3. A pantie comprising a rear panel having a substantially straight upper margin, lateral margins inclined outwardly from said upper margin,

' "Number and a lower margin the middle portion of which 7 ,of the lower margins of said front panels respectively which are parallel with the upper margins are superimposed one on the other and both are superimposed on the said intermediate portion of the lower margin of said rear panel, and all three panels are secured together along the said superimposed portions of their.lower margins, :whereby a garment is formeddefining two legs separated by a seam corresponding in length to the length of the said superimposed portions of the lower margins of said panels, the inner margins of the front panels being overlapped from their bottom margins to their top margins, and means for securing the upper mar.- gins of said front panels together in a variety of difierent positions of overlap.

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